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The Allergan Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2020
316
Grants FY2020
31
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 316 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k49 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k163 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k95 grants · $8.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.7M
$25,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCI FOUNDATION$2,000,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,608,870
NY PRESBYTERIAN$900,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$500,000
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$416,208
DIRECT RELIEF$350,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$333,333
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HOSP$300,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY$250,000
DEEDLY$225,000
ALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
ALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
CARE ABOUT FIBROIDS$180,000
AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY$175,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$175,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY: $100k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING - SAN JOSE: $25k → 8%CARITAS OF WACO: $40k → 16%KANSAS UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS: $35k → 16%OPTOMETRY CARES-THE AOA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CINCINNATI: $90k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $35k → 4%WOMEN AWARE INC: $10k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $30k → 8%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $15k → 7%PROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $15k → 4%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $15k → 12%DEEDLY: $225k → 15%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURG FDN: $100k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $50k → 4%BLINDED VETERANS ASSN: $10k → 9%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $10k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE: $25k → 4%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $25k → 14%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%NEXTGENFACE: $50k → 17%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%IRVINE ADULT DAY HEALTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Equine Therapy ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity Food PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity College Foundatio…School District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/227
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,338

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

216 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 216 of the 304 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
205/216
Grantees still filing
163/216
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NY PRESBYTERIAN — $900,000 · OtherNY PRESBYTERIANALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONNEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HOSP — $300,000 · Other+96 more — $4,853,960 · Other+96 moreMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,608,870 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI…NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $500,000 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNE…THE JED FOUNDATION — $333,333 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATIONAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY — $250,000 · Health+48 more — $2,766,085 · Health+48 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $2,254,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…National Merit Scholarship Corporation — $416,208 · EducationNational Merit Schol…+13 more — $490,000 · Education+13 moreDEEDLY INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL — $90,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesNEXTGEN FACE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACO — $40,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesKansas University Physicians Inc — $35,000 · Human Services+8 more — $220,000 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $110,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $100,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISHNJ INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionDIRECT RELIEF — $400,100 · InternationalRESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $27,280 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH ADVANCEMENT INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyMental Health Coalition Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY — $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,453,960Health$5,458,288Education$3,160,208Human Services$970,000Food & Nutrition$635,000International$477,380Philanthropy$445,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $2,254,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,608,870 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $416,208 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $400,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $333,333 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY — $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDEEDLY INC — $225,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY — $175,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $165,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMental Health Coalition Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Plasticos — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL — $90,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC — $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY — $70,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC — $55,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBEYOND TYPE 1 — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAESTHETIC SURGERY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AbbVie FoundationOrange County Communi…The Provident Bank Fo…O L Halsell FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…Sisters of St Joseph …Investors Foundation …Edwards Lifesciences …Hoag Memorial Hospita…Glen and Dorothy Stil…Community Foundation …Oneoc
AbbVie FoundationIL39.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oneoc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Allergan Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc — 15% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Monmouth County Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Children On the Green Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Orlando Health Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Allergan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Allergan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 304 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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